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Our placement rate is 98%, among the nation’s highest, with the most recent starting salaries averaging over $50,000. We are a key recruitment source for many of America’s leading companies.
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Where Can Computer Engineering Take Me?

Clarkson offers a campus rich in technology, which is perfect for a computer engineering student. Computer engineers bring together computer science, electrical engineering, math and science, using computer-based tools and good problem-solving skills to design, build, and maintain systems that contain or use computers. Here are some of the possible careers:

  • Chip design, verification, and testing
  • Board level design
  • Design of ASICS
  • Interactive graphical user interface design — making systems easier to use or data easier to interpret
  • Database applications
  • Software tool development
  • Embedded system design — hardware/ software systems such as those that control your antilock brakes, VCR, or the hospital's MRI equipment

Clarkson graduates are sought both for their strong technical skills and their versatility. For many years, Clarkson graduates have been eagerly sought by such large firms as IBM, Lockheed-Martin, and Intel. As Internet and modern technology continue to revolutionize the way industry operates, increasing opportunities are opening up in small firms, too. Our graduates are accepted in the best advanced degree programs in the country, including our own. Among these are Duke, Georgia Tech, Michigan, MIT, and Stanford.

By working through Clarkson's Career Center, you can choose from a broad range of summer or semester-long co-op and internship opportunities, where you can gain professional experience while earning a salary.